{"quotes":[{"text":"All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.","author":"Isabel Allende","tags":["expatriate","live-in-the-present","nostalgia"],"id":49809,"author_id":"Isabel+Allende"},{"text":"It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.","author":"Sarah Turnbull","tags":["expatriate","travel"],"id":102101,"author_id":"Sarah+Turnbull"},{"text":"He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking.","author":"Paul Bowles","tags":["existentialism","expatriate","french-north-africa","post-colonialism","travel-novel"],"id":218267,"author_id":"Paul+Bowles"},{"text":"Ô, the wine of a womanfrom heaven is sent, more perfect than allthat a man can invent.When she came to my bed and begged me with sighsnot to tempt her towards passion nor actions unwise, \tI told her I’d spare her and kissed her closed eyes, then unbraided her body of its clothing disguise.While our bodies were nude bathed in candlelight fineI devoured her mouth, tender lips divine;and I drank through her thighs her feminine wine.Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,more perfect than all that a man can invent.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["adventuress","allegory","beautiful","bedroom","desire","dreameress","dreams","drive","empowerment","enjoying","expatriate","female","female-beauty","female-characters","female-empowerment","female-hero","female-liberation","females","feminine","femininity","feminism","femme","filles","first-love","freedom","gentle","girl","girl-power","girl","girls","goal","goals","happiness","hearts","hiding","imagination","inspire","jeune-fille","kid","kiss","life","life-philosophy","literature","living","love","lovers","loving","making-love","map","memory","motivation","passion","passionate","payne","poetess","poetry","power","pretty","risk","roaming","roman","roman-payne","romantic","running","sacred","secretive","seductive","sensual","sensuality","strength","surrender","sweet","the-wanderess","time","travel","wander","wanderer","wanderess","wandering","wanderlust","wayfaring","wildness","wine","wisdom","woman","woman-s-character","woman-s-strength","womanhood","women","women-s-inspirational","women-s-liberation","women-s-strength"],"id":250834,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. Or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["asia","burma","creativity","expatriate","expatriot","expats","france","ideas","inspiration","opiate","opiates","opium","paris","parisians","poppies","saffron","travel","writer-s-block","writing"],"id":411246,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"I know you will come back to me one day,the day I've built my kingdom, the day when all my dreams are changed.And it will be better that you go back to your home, I will be in progress and you will be just an expatriate.","author":"Nabil TOUSSI","tags":["day","expatriate","home","kingdom","life","love","promise","sadness"],"id":415938,"author_id":"Nabil+TOUSSI"},{"text":"Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.","author":"Eva Hoffman","tags":["agony","awareness","consciousness","expatriate","memory","translation","two-worlds"],"id":437770,"author_id":"Eva+Hoffman"},{"text":"But if I am not a criminal, I beg to be permitted to go abroad with my wife temporarily, for at least one year, with the right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve great ideas in literature without cringing before little men, as soon as there is at least a partial change in the prevailing view concerning the role of the literary artist. (“Letter To Stalin”).","author":"Yevgeny Zamyatin","tags":["art","dissident","expatriate","lierature","writing"],"id":449108,"author_id":"Yevgeny+Zamyatin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}